The next-to-leading order Higgs impact factor at physical top mass: the real corrections

Abstract We compute the real corrections to the impact factor for the production of a forward Higgs boson, retaining full top-mass dependence. We demonstrate that the rapidity divergence is the one predicted by the BFKL factorization and perform the explicit subtraction in the BFKL scheme. We show t...

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Main Authors: Francesco Giovanni Celiberto, Luigi Delle Rose, Michael Fucilla, Gabriele Gatto, Alessandro Papa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2024-12-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)061
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Summary:Abstract We compute the real corrections to the impact factor for the production of a forward Higgs boson, retaining full top-mass dependence. We demonstrate that the rapidity divergence is the one predicted by the BFKL factorization and perform the explicit subtraction in the BFKL scheme. We show that the IR-structure of the impact factor is the expected one and that, in the infinite-top-mass approximation, the previously known result is recovered. We also verify that the impact factor vanishes when the transverse momenta of the t-channel Reggeon goes to zero, in agreement with its gauge-invariant definition, exploiting the m t → ∞ expansion up to the next-to-next-to-leading order.
ISSN:1029-8479